Yale student backs Baker

April 27, 2005|By David Haugh.

The Yale female student to whom Dusty Baker gave his cell-phone number during a campus visit backed up the Cubs manager's claim Tuesday that the exchange was innocent. "Dusty at no point called anyone cute or anything similar that could be misconstrued," the student said on the condition of anonymity. The woman said Baker handed out the only two business cards he brought and asked the two students who received them to share the information. Because the dinner conversation delved into issues of race, Baker told the students if they called him "to come up with some sort of obvious descriptor," the senior said. "It's ridiculous how this then became, `Remind me you were the cute one."'